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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Samuel Hasselhorn
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released September 22, 2023 | harmonia mundi
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This 2023 release inaugurates an ongoing series from baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz, performing Schubert works two centuries on from their date of composition, and slated to culminate in 2028, the bicentennial of the composer's death. The project begins with one of the most famous Schubert song cycles of all, Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795, depicting the crackup and despair of a young wanderer who falls in love with a beautiful miller's daughter. Hasselhorn has plenty of recent competition in this cycle; listeners can sample the 2017 recording by Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber for another approach, but this one promises well for the ongoing project. Die schöne Müllerin is a work in which Schubert took vast strides toward the emancipation of the piano in the lied, and Bushakevitz leans into this aspect, with details that illuminate and often foreshadow themes developing in the text. Hasselhorn has a warm baritone with an appealing conversational tone that turns chilly and quiet toward the cycle's downer conclusion. Another draw is Harmonia Mundi's sound from the b-sharp studio in Berlin; the engineers put Bushakevitz just a bit forward in the mix, not so much as to sap energy from Hasselhorn's singing, but enough to highlight his perceptive performance. This release bodes well indeed for the duo's future work.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schubert Revisited: Lieder Arranged for Baritone and Orchestra
Matthias Goerne
Classical - Released January 6, 2023 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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Pianist Alexander Schmalcz has performed alongside many famous singers during his career and is also a talented arranger. At the request of Matthias Goerne, he orchestrated Schubert’s lieder in the spirit of similar works by Berlioz, Reger, Liszt and Webern. Matthias Goerne has performed these orchestrations in numerous concerts, both in Europe and in New York, as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival.Schmalcz’s arrangements are both rigorous and conscientious. They’re perfect for Matthias Goerne’s dark tone, which is particularly graceful on this recording made in October 2019 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Over the years, the German baritone’s voice has become even more well-rounded, finding deep golden bass tones.The orchestration gives these 20 lieder exceptional weight, further emphasised by the mellowness of the strings, the darkness of the trombones and the sometimes ominous use of the timpani. This orchestration plunges Schubert’s music into a romantic universe similar to lieder by Brahms and even Wolf, especially in Songs of the harpist (Gesänge des Harfners), The Erl-King (Erlkönig) and the famous lieder Death and the maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen). The anachronism of these arrangements is magnified by the silky accompaniment of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Matthias Goerne’s stunning vocals. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Echo: Schubert, Loewe, Schumann & Wolf
Georg Nigl
Classical - Released May 5, 2023 | Alpha Classics
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Schubert : Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25
Andrè Schuen
Classical - Released March 5, 2021 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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If the global pandemic allows it, the young baritone Andrès Schuen is expected in Papageno (The Magic Flute) at the Vienna Opera in spring 2021. He will be Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in the summer of the same year, and then Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte) at the Salzburg festival.Hailing from the Italian Tyrol, close by Austria, Andrès Schuen has a solid CV. He studied song under Wolfgang Holzmair and Brigitte Fassbaender, and lieder under Daniel Heide. It is the latter that he has chosen again as a partner for this new album dedicated to the Schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Miller) by Franz Schubert after the great success of their album Wanderer released in 2018.His fine, youthful and manly timbre works wonders throughout this cycle. It is a voyage through the joy and hope of youth, a joy soon tarnished by the cruel disillusionments of life. In the manner of an actor, and above all, a storyteller, Schuen gradually goes from laughter to tears and resignation. His style is unaffected, with a probity and simplicity that pleases. Accustomed to the Schubertiades of his neighbouring Schwarzenberg which he often visits, Andrès Schuen is supported by the attentive but somewhat matte piano playing of Daniel Heide, specialist in lieder and accompanist to the greatest voices of the day. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin + 3 Lieder
Fritz Wunderlich
Classical - Released September 2, 2016 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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85th Birthday Tribute - Stimme der Liebe
Ian Partridge
Classical - Released June 16, 2023 | SOMM Recordings
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The recordings on this album date from between 1968 and 1972 and were taken from BBC broadcasts of tenor Ian Partridge singing music of Schubert. They have never been released before, and they make an ideal celebration of Partridge's 85th birthday. The sound is just fair, with varying levels of background hiss and an inconsistent sound in the piano and relationship between the voice and the piano. The performances, however, are extraordinary. This comes with a quote from Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the graphics: "Listening to your Schubert was and is a pure joy." That is assuredly not beanbag, but what is all the more impressive is that Partridge's interpretations diverge so far from the singing of Fischer-Dieskau, the dominant Schubertian of the time. Partridge's voice in itself is nothing special; it certainly lacked the warm beauty of Fischer-Dieskau's, yet his interpretations are sui generis, with deep insight into what may seem like simple songs. He is perhaps at his strongest in the most minimal pieces. Consider Nähe des Geliebten, D. 162, where the contrast with Fischer-Dieskau's reading is fundamental. There are some well-known songs here, but Partridge also points to the obscure and meaty Vor meiner Wiege, D. 927, as a personal favorite. Many of the songs are accompanied by Partridge's sister Jennifer, and they had a marvelously intuitive creative partnership. Two others feature longtime BBC accompanist Ernest Lush. Another major draw here is that three songs are accompanied by Ian Partridge himself, a rare art that is wonderfully executed. Sample how each note in the piano is freighted with meaning in Ihr Bild, from Schwanengesang, D. 957. Partridge is far from unknown; he remained active for many years after these performances and gave his last recital in 2008 at age 70. However, the album is a real find, a winner for the Somm label, and it is absolutely essential for lovers of the lied.
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Schubert: Die Schöne Mullerin
Thomas Guthrie
Mélodies - Released November 24, 2023 | RUBICON
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Baritone Thomas Guthrie gets top billing, as is usual for the singer, on this recording of Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, but equally important is the ensemble Barokksolistene, contributing a string quintet and a pair of guitars as accompaniment to Schubert's familiar songs about the fair maid of the mill. The arrangements are by Guthrie, but this release was the product of a musical-theatrical presentation by Barokksolistene, a group that has tried, so to speak, to bring classical music back to the barrooms, with performances of Baroque music in pub-like settings. It is hard to evaluate the recording without the theatrical context; the backing group is different from the usual ones offered by Barokksolistene, and there is something of the flavor of two projects going at cross purposes. On the other hand, arrangements of all kinds were common in the 19th century, and even if a string quintet would be unlikely for an informal musicale, nothing here goes beyond the bounds of what is reasonable. Guthrie has an appealing baritone, and as an introduction to the undoubtedly experimental spirit of Barokksolistene, this album succeeds. It made classical best-seller charts in the holiday season of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Liszt: Schubert Song Transcriptions, Vol. 3
Goran Filipec
Classical - Released April 28, 2023 | Naxos
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Franz Schubert : Wanderers Nachtlied (Lieder, vol. 8)
Matthias Goerne
Lieder (German) - Released February 10, 2014 | harmonia mundi
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Schubertiade
Justus Zeyen
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released February 4, 2022 | BR-Klassik
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In society music, or Gesellschaftsmusik, to which a large part of Franz Schubert's lied oeuvre belongs, polyphonic vocal compositions became very fashionable in around 1800 as part of bourgeois musical culture and communal singing. To describe Schubert's pieces for several male or female voices as choral songs is not entirely accurate, however, since at the time they were usually sung by soloists. However, amateur choirs such as the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna already existed and held regular concerts, and Schubert's polyphonic songs thus often came to the attention of a wider public more quickly than his solo songs performed in private circles. Society music had thus taken the step into the concert hall, and Schubert's name first appeared on a program of the Musikfreunde on January 25, 1821. Some of the composer’s best-known songs for men's or women's choir with piano are collected in this "Schubertiade", including the gently swaying barcarole Der Gondelfahrer, in which Schubert evokes the glitter of moonlight on the Venetian canals, or the Ständchen, which was written as a birthday serenade. One of his five settings of Mignon's Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister was written for five-part male choir – a special feature here among his polyphonic songs is that Mignon's tormented soul is expressed through a differentiated harmony and refined treatment of the text. A prominent position among Schubert’s religious pieces that were not intended for the church is occupied by Mirjams Siegesgesang, where the male and female choirs finally unite and embody the Israelite people. The choir answers to a solo soprano as the precentor. This large-scale work depicts the exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt, with the prophetess Mirjam at their head; her three-movement hymn of praise leads into an impressive choral fugue. © BR-Klassik
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Schubert : Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795
Christian Gerhaher
Lieder (German) - Released October 6, 2017 | Sony Classical
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German baritone Christian Gerhaher and his accompanist/partner-in-creativity Gerold Huber have risen to the top of the heap in primary lied repertory, and it is easy to see why. In their second turn through Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, Gerhaher could simply have applied his golden baritone, and everybody would have been happy. Instead, he steps into character and conveys the unsettled psyche of the cycle's frustrated protagonist. He may gain strength at times, whereupon the famed Gerhaher sound comes through, but the cycle has a convincing dramatic arc that ends in unhappiness and weakness. Sample Trockne Blumen toward the end for the full range. Another Gerhaher innovation here is the inclusion of unset poems, recited by Gerhaher at the beginning, at the end, and along the way. This both breaks the tension and provides a more complex context to the whole sequence, and it's certainly something that one can imagine Schubert and his friends doing in their chambers. The booklet of the CD version has more on Schubert, Müller, and their orbit. A masterful, extremely satisfying remaking of some famous songs, and a Die schöne Müllerin that elevates the cycle to the level of Die Winterreise, D. 911.© TiVo
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Schubert: Lieder
Jessye Norman
Classical - Released September 24, 1985 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
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Franz Liszt: Schubert & Wagner Transcriptions
Jean-Nicolas Diatkine
Classical - Released May 27, 2022 | Solo Musica
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Some of Jean-Nicolas Diatkine's singer friends have ended their careers, but their magic is irreplaceable in his eyes, or rather in his ears. He misses them, just as he misses the Schubert, Schumann and Brahms songs they sang. Well, there is only one person who can compensate for this loss, and his name is Franz Liszt. The main aim of transcriptions was to make orchestral works known to a wider audience, at a time when there were far fewer orchestras, and public access to symphony concerts was very limited. But Liszt gives transcriptions a new meaning: he puts the orchestra into the piano, since his style is particularly suited to outsized extravagance. Thus he opens up unprecedented pianistic possibilities, where virtuosity is no longer mere exhibitionism but rather transformed into the art of illusion. His arrangements of Wagner are so convincing that they become his own personal creations. Laurent Bessières, piano tuner at the Paris Philharmonic, suggested for this recording a Schiedmayer piano of 1916 made in Stuttgart, which he had completely rebuilt in collaboration with Antoine Letessier-Salmon, director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and Stephen Paulello, piano maker and inventor of the strings that bear his name. This instrument has almost never been used in concert, however excellent work by Laurent Bessières convinced us to try it out in this very special repertoire. © solo musica
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Rheinmädchen (Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner)
Raphaël Pichon
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released March 18, 2016 | harmonia mundi
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Schubert: Lieder
Bernarda Fink, Gerold Huber
Classical - Released September 2, 2008 | harmonia mundi
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Schubert: Die Schöne Mullerin
Iestyn Davies
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released January 21, 2022 | Signum Records
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Renowned performers Iestyn Davies and Joseph Middleton perform Schubert's tragic song-cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Adapting poetry by Wilhelm Müller, the genesis of D. 795 marks the beginning of the end of Schubert's life; he discovered that he had contracted syphilis sometime in late 1822 or early 1823, and it was in 1823 that he composed this tale of a poet-singer who dies in the aftermath of erotic experience. Released under the own label of St John's College, Cambridge, this recording acts as a celebration of Iestyn Davies's formative period at the college; beginning there as a 7-year-old probationer in 1987, he progressed to become Head Chorister, before ultimately returning to study as a choral scholar. Alongside full texts and translations, the booklet includes a background on the work by noted Lied expert Susan Youens, as well as reflections on Iestyn's time at St John's from the College's past and present Directors of Music – Christopher Robinson and Andrew Nethsingha. © Signum Classics
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Schubert: Die Liebe liebt das Wandern
Robert Stadlober
Comedy/Other - Released January 8, 2021 | BR-Klassik
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SCHUBERT, F.: Goethe-Lieder (Auger, Olbertz)
Arleen Auger
Classical - Released October 25, 1994 | Berlin Classics
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Thomas Quasthoff in Verbier
Thomas Quasthoff
Classical - Released December 1, 2023 | Verbier Festival Gold
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (Live)
Ian Bostridge
Classical - Released November 6, 2020 | PentaTone
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Ian Bostridge continues his new exploration of Schubert song cycles with a recording of Die schöne Müllerin, together with pianist Saskia Giorgini. Die schöne Müllerin (1823) was Schubert’s first song cycle, and simultaneously Bostridge’s first extended introduction to the Lied and all its wonders. Schubert initially conceived the cycle together with poet Wilhelm Müller as a party game among friends, but gradually got captivated by the profundity of this apparently naïve love story. Bostridge is equally fascinated by the way in which this playful, folk-inspired piece gradually transforms into a cosmic lullaby in the final lines of the last song ‘des Baches Wiegenlied’. For pianist Giorgini, the key to - but also the greatest challenge of - interpreting Schubert’s music, and particularly Die schöne Müllerin, lies in the oceanic experience and hypnotic power of repetition. © Pentatone
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